On Red Mage melee...

[Seriha]

CDC's one of the better Emp WS, no doubt, but coaxing people to endure Guku's Aery and such for a melee RDM will definitely be an uphill battle. It'd be around this point where I'd suggest people also level PLD and BLU to get the most out of the sword, but PLD suffers its own popularity issues (though arguably being the best for CDC use with their gear options) while a lot of people just look to BLU as the niche grellow whore. I have BLU and RDM leveled, myself, and just getting aid for the Briareus stage has been rough as well as SE hating on me with single drop kills. I'm sure tempting people with +2 items would make the Sobek phase easier, but still, Guku's a cockblock for everyone and, at best, 5 min kill/15 min pop, spawns 72 times a day to satisfy every single person on a server looking for a Kannagi or Almace. That might complete 2 a day with enough double drops from Sobek, but if you figure 30 kills in actuality, that's 10 hours of Guku alone. Probably more spread over 2-3 hours per session with varying competition along the way.

WoE would be more tolerable if it wasn't a total clusterfeck of suck and random.

[Doombringer]

CDC's one of the better Emp WS, no doubt, but coaxing people to endure Guku's Aery and such for a melee RDM will definitely be an uphill battle. It'd be around this point where I'd suggest people also level PLD and BLU to get the most out of the sword, but PLD suffers its own popularity issues (though arguably being the best for CDC use with their gear options) while a lot of people just look to BLU as the niche grellow whore. I have BLU and RDM leveled, myself, and just getting aid for the Briareus stage has been rough as well as SE hating on me with single drop kills. I'm sure tempting people with +2 items would make the Sobek phase easier, but still, Guku's a cockblock for everyone and, at best, 5 min kill/15 min pop, spawns 72 times a day to satisfy every single person on a server looking for a Kannagi or Almace. That might complete 2 a day with enough double drops from Sobek, but if you figure 30 kills in actuality, that's 10 hours of Guku alone. Probably more spread over 2-3 hours per session with varying competition along the way.

WoE would be more tolerable if it wasn't a total clusterfeck of suck and random.

agreed.. that's why i'm saying it needs to be easier to get. it's kind of bs that you need an emp weapon just to play the job as it's advertised.

i'm just throwing it out there cuz it seems like an easy fix, though admittedly not ideal.. CdC already exists.. give it to rdms without an emp (or emp-1) weapon. if need be, do this for all emp ws's and there respective jobs. then just buff the actual emp weapons accordingly to make up for the loss of there "unique" ws.

they did it with the mythic ws's? (except then they forgot to buff the actual mythic weapons <.<)